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Take Action: Stop the Fee Hikes on Veterans' Healthcare!
Don't allow the Department of Defense to raise fees on veterans' healthcare!
Goal: 20,000
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Progress: 6,913
Sponsored by: The Veterans Site
In an attempt to quell government spending, the Department of Defense is trying to raise health care coverage fees for military retirees. Though the urgency of the current economic climate requires cuts to spending, veterans' healthcare isn't wasteful and shouldn't be up for debate.
Senator Patty Murray, Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, has denounced these fee increases, saying, "Affordable health care is an essential part of the promise we make to those who sign up to serve and one we have to keep in good times and in bad."
And Senator Murray is right. It's our obligation to care for those who have fought for our country. Veterans' healthcare simply isn't an area in which anyone can justify eliminating budget allocations.
Sign the petition to keep healthcare funding within the hands of those who need it — America's veterans!
Dear Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel:
Fee increases would mean many military retirees could be largely responsible for their own health care costs.
Those who have sacrificed their lives to defend our country deserve to be treated with the utmost of appreciation when they return. Forcing them to pay out of pocket for essential healthcare is unacceptable.
You must find other ways to reduce government spending. Taking away the care our veterans are entitled to is ridiculous.
I will continue to fight on behalf of our veterans until you provide them with the care they have earned.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
Cody Cliff
May 13, 2013
Larrie Hoops
May 12, 2013
Karina Pettinger
May 12, 2013
David Randall
Raise healthcare fees for Congress!
May 12, 2013
Bob Morin
May 11, 2013
verna Donnelly
May 11, 2013
Misty Barron
Every year the VA takes what little income tax return my husband gets and continues to bill him throughout the year even though we qualify for low income billing. 21 years we have been treated this way. When will it stop?
May 8, 2013
Connie Brown
May 7, 2013
Tina Rousselle
May 6, 2013
Judy Delgado
THATS DISCUSTING AND SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED...Have congress shell out some of their pay.
May 6, 2013
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May 6, 2013
Sherry Byrd
May 5, 2013
Kevin Kenger
May 5, 2013
Pat Souders
TSgt USAF retired 1972
May 5, 2013
Dolores McMinn
WHY DO VETERANS HAVE TO PAY FOR HEALTH CARE FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE FIRST PLACE? THEY HAVE FOUGHT, GAVE UP COUNTLESS HOURS OF FAMILY TIME. NOW THEY RETIRE, ONLY TO BE PENALIZED BY HAVING TO PAY EVERYTHING, INCL. HEALTHCARE? MAKES NO SENSE!
May 4, 2013
Jerri Barnard
May 2, 2013
Julie Squire
Apr 30, 2013
Carl Scarborough
Apr 30, 2013
Sherrill Graviano
Apr 30, 2013
p swarms
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
Annie England
Apr 26, 2013
Lori Osburn
Apr 25, 2013
shea holliman
Apr 25, 2013
Arlo Jones
Apr 25, 2013
Elaine Callahan
Apr 24, 2013
Sylvia Reinard
Apr 24, 2013
Nancy Feldstein
Apr 24, 2013
Jan Blanchard
These wonderful people signed up to protect you so the least you could do is protect them Just do it!!!
Apr 23, 2013
Linda Lowry
Secretary Hagel: We veterans were promised free health care for life! Please ensure America keeps its promise to veterans!
Chaplain, Major
USAF Retired
Apr 23, 2013
lynn coffey-edelman
Apr 21, 2013
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Apr 20, 2013
kathy OXTON-VILLEMUER
Apr 19, 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
Linda French
Apr 18, 2013
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Apr 18, 2013
Melody Corley
Apr 18, 2013
LEANN smith
Apr 16, 2013
beverly dunn
Apr 16, 2013
Brian Hill
Apr 15, 2013
Peggy Van Sickle
Apr 15, 2013
Tharon Clemens
Apr 15, 2013
Terry Swick
Apr 13, 2013
Susan Kepner
Apr 12, 2013
Darlene Russell
Apr 11, 2013
Maureen Butcher
Apr 11, 2013
ryan mckenzie
Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 10, 2013
jim novotny
Ok you the government put these people in harms way. You gave them most of there medical problems. You should lower the cost of healthcare for them. Not raise it.
